Obama’s poor leadership and unpreparedness is starting to show and is getting traction in the media. From Wordnik.com. [Source says some Democrats frustrated with health bill] Reference
All these rants about "unpreparedness" are silly: nobody can be "prepared" to this job. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
"The old Army fault of unpreparedness," remarked Percival. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-11] Reference
As with the unpreparedness, I'm not sure why I'm always late. From Wordnik.com. [idiot-milk Diary Entry] Reference
Beyond inexperience and unpreparedness, this shows stupidity. From Wordnik.com. [WaPo's Howard Kurtz: New McCain Ad Contains "Whopper"] Reference
Van der Merwe ascribed the delays to "general unpreparedness". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Palin's unpreparedness for national office is painful to watch. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Green: Palin's 'One of You' Pretense Insults Voters' Intelligence] Reference
From Maine to Texas, there are new concerns about unpreparedness. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 28, 2009] Reference
Zambia's poor military capability and unpreparedness in the face of. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
But they don't expect there to be any real level of unpreparedness here. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Joe Lockhart] Reference
The price of our unpreparedness for World War II was staggering to the imagination. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Brothers]
Perhaps even more serious was the psychological unpreparedness for the new situation. From Wordnik.com. [THE ANC'S ONE AND A HALF YEARS IN PARLIAMENT] Reference
For if the first be ever powerful he may destroy thee to the root (for thy unpreparedness). From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
Just a few weeks ago, the GAO joined the tragic chorus singing a parodos of unpreparedness. From Wordnik.com. [The End of Analog Television Redux: Shelly Palmer Report] Reference
Palin said it, y'all'd be braying about her incompetence, unpreparedness and lack of experience. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central Morning Roundup] Reference
"We cannot fulfill our objectives with ailing equipment, abetted by the risk of unpreparedness.". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
A person of real character would have declined the nomination on grounds of her own unpreparedness. From Wordnik.com. [William Fisher: Goodbye, Mr. Brooks.] Reference
There's a level of unpreparedness with respect to chemical plants, nuclear plants, our ports and facilities. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 10, 2006] Reference
However, this routine with the dying I-A operative had lulled her into a state of psychological unpreparedness. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Haystack] Reference
He would not take the advice of his colonial officers and paid the penalty of his unpreparedness with his life. From Wordnik.com. ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference
I say ignore her to the extent they can, and wait for her to reveal her unpreparedness, as she inevitably will. From Wordnik.com. [Palin Took Heat For Giggling After Radio Show Host Attacked Opponent As "Bitch"] Reference
October 20, 2007 -- Just a few weeks ago, the GAO joined the tragic chorus singing a parodos of unpreparedness. From Wordnik.com. [The End of Analog Television Redux - Shelly Palmer Report] Reference
In the memorandum, workers "note with dismay the unwillingness and unpreparedness" of management to embrace change. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Why, the Volunteers would have been left in a state of utter unpreparedness had not the public taken the initiative. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, Or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 16, 1892] Reference
Even more serious was the psychological unpreparedness of newly elected MPS, who had either come from exile or prison. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
It took a lag time of little over a year and a half for American industry to compensate for our state of unpreparedness. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 27, 2006] Reference
American people to a full realization of our deplorable state of unpreparedness and of the necessity of action by Congress. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
It was our state of unpreparedness continuing for a long time afterwards, which contributed, no doubt, to German arrogance. From Wordnik.com. [History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, the Spanish-American War, and the Late Imbroglio With Mexico] Reference
"The core issue is the unpreparedness of children for secondary education and, beyond that, all life's learning necessities.". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Clearly, unless and until we face up to the realities of our ongoing unpreparedness, we are unlikely to continue to be so lucky. From Wordnik.com. [WHO WILL WATCH THE WATCH LIST?] Reference
U.S. military forces are led by officers who are inadequately trained to lead, contributing to tbe unpreparedness of the troops. From Wordnik.com. [John Tepper Marlin: Experts Slam DoD Waste in Book for Obama] Reference
In the meantime the National Security League feels impelled to call public attention to our deplorable condition of unpreparedness. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
I should not object to his unpreparedness for the actual state of things if the Doctrinaire did not assume the airs of a superior person. From Wordnik.com. [By the Christmas Fire] Reference
For those freaked out about her unpreparedness, the history of the other tigers we have voted into the Oval Office stares us in the face. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Rowan: Barack is Not a Tiger] Reference
Like most other over-optimistic free lances, we invaded New York with an expeditionary force which was in a woeful state of unpreparedness. From Wordnik.com. [If You Don't Write Fiction] Reference
But the National Party accused the ANC of using the president's absence as a smokescreen for internal party differences and unpreparedness. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
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